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  1. Rich Papper

    Am I the only one happy when my car ticks over 50000 miles and I can spend the next 50 naming 50s?

    1. Mel_H

      Mel_H

      Having enjoyed the original 1976/77 GW and ECML HST formations last year, I'm now just about to experience the 1938-built Czech delight that is 259.001.

       

      Only one is left, having been heavily rebuilt over 10 years (outshopped 2016) from the sole survivor that fell out of use in 1953, was then used as a parts store, before in the 1970s being 'discovered' and bought for a planned model railway clubhouse (the layout was never built), until it passed to a museum in 1999, by now very heavily deteriorated.

       

      The rebuild cost around £1m, and it's used on the main line

       

       

       

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      BTW, my car is petrol..., and we're talking miles, not km. Just do the regular oil/filter changes every 10,000 and use manufacturer's spec oil/parts.

       

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  2. Sir TophamHatt

    Nice signature :P 

    1. Mel_H

      Mel_H

      Thanks! Although it has gained criticism as the portions arrive in the wrong order!

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  3. Clearwater

    Child 1 building brio train set. Baby crawls up and starts dismantling track. Child 1 -"Daddy tell Stephen to stop being Dr Beeching!"

    1. Mel_H

      Mel_H

      What have you been telling them?!

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  4. Tim V

    The time has come,' the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes -- and ships -- and sealing-wax -- Of cabbages -- and kings --

    1. Mel_H

      Mel_H

      And why the sea is boiling hot--

      And whether pigs have wings.

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